Deaths
- January 20 – Johnny Weissmuller, Austro-Hungarian-born American swimmer and actor (born 1904)
- April 1 – Marvin Gaye, American singer-songwriter and musician (born 1939)
- April 26 – Count Basie, American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer (born 1904)
- August 25 – Truman Capote, American author (born 1924)
- December – J. Roderick MacArthur, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1920)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)